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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Utz fantasize he would meet?
(a) A British heiress.
(b) A lonely middle-aged women.
(c) A teenage girl.
(d) A fun-loving American.

2. What season does Utz say provided the happiest times?
(a) Potato season.
(b) Paprika season.
(c) Sunflower season.
(d) Mushroom season.

3. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?
(a) A tin of olives.
(b) A chicken leg.
(c) A baguette.
(d) A duck breast.

4. How does the narrator find the mood in the Soviet Union?
(a) Buoyant.
(b) Serious.
(c) Light.
(d) Depressed.

5. What do the customs men take from Utz?
(a) His small change.
(b) His phone.
(c) His sweater.
(d) His wallet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Utz's New York dealer?

2. What famous event is almost a year away?

3. How do Utz and Marta counter any microphones that may have been planted in the house?

4. What does Utz admit to storing in a vault at a Swiss bank?

5. What does Utz say is one of life's pleasures?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

2. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

3. How did Utz get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia?

4. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

5. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

6. Why did the makers call the white porcelain porcelain?

7. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

8. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?

9. Why does Utz think porcelain was the Chinese people's material?

10. Why does Marta bang pots together?

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